on Doctor Who

The Rare Case of the Doctor Altering His Own Timeline: "Dalek" vs. The Battle at Canary Wharf (19 Feb 2011). Doctor Who plays fast and quite furious with causality, and for every time the Doctor whips out some speech about the Web of Time (see, amongst many others, The Resurrection of Mars audioplay) there is some other time where he is offering some advice to a painter or tweaking something he thinks is broken. Still, he tries to go on and on about impacting his own time stream. There is one place where this rule is violated, maybe, and you can trace it with me.

Is Albert Campion really The Doctor in a prolonged disguise? Albert Campion helps people with their problems (especially when their problems are murder), much like the Doctor. But the similarities do not stop there. Did the Fifth Doctor take some years off to become a parlor-murder sleuth? While the answer is obviously No, it still makes me chuckle to see the ways that he could possibly have.

First Doctor: William Hartnell

Second Doctor: Patrick Troughton

Third Doctor: Jon Pertwee

Serial 64 - The Time Monster (4 May 2013). Doctor Who has had its various vamps and sexpots throughout the years, and it has been remarked that the companions (largely female) are for the dads, but... Also, I talk about the episode in general...